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Message no. 1
From: Terry Amburgey <xanth@****.UKY.EDU>
Subject: staging grenade damage
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 13:39:33 -0400
Robert Watkins wrote:
>Of course, that gets to the next question... how do you decide what point
>to aim at? Well, in my game at least, I never liked how you couldn't kill
>someone with a grenade, so I introduced rules allowing for indirect fire
>weapons to be aimed at specific targets, with all the usual penalties. The
>bonus was that you could then stage up the damage after getting rid of the
>scatter, for that target. That gets around that problem.
>Otherwise, aim for the door... :)

The rules already incorporate staging up damage for grenades. Someone
pointed this out a while back [last spring maybe?] and since I'd missed it
myself, I checked. Sure enough, it's there. Terry
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Message no. 2
From: Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: staging grenade damage
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 08:13:33 +0930
Terry Amburgey wrote:
>
> The rules already incorporate staging up damage for grenades. Someone
> pointed this out a while back [last spring maybe?] and since I'd missed it
> myself, I checked. Sure enough, it's there. Terry

Is that the overblast rules you're talking about? *puzzled... think I'll
check my rule book at lunch*

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